Today you can spark an economic revolution. Are you up for the challenge? It has been said that environment is a direct reflection of the people in it. If you want to change the environment, just change the people. Should not this apply to our economic situation as well? So how do we change the local economy? By changing the way the people interact and do business. When each of us becomes more focused on helping our friends, neighbors, and local businesses, everyone will experience an economic revival and it starts by referring friends and acquaintances to people we know. And best of all, it's not a new skill to learn. You've already referred people to others before. You've referred a movie or restaurant to a co-worker, a book to a friend, or simply given directions to a stranger in your town. Everyone is networking all the time, whether for business, charity or friendship, networking is a part of all our lives. Businesses large and small rely on networking to launch new products, find new customers, and fill open staff positions. Networking is the most cost-effective means to solve problems in your business. It has long been known that a…

It's happened unfortunately to many people. You turn on your computer and hear that dreaded click and realize that not only can you not get into windows, you have not made a backup of your precious files. At this point you have a few options. **** The following suggestions are offered as FREE advice and should be taken as such. I am in no way responsible if you destroy your hard drive by using any of these methods. **** 1. Put it in the freezer for 24 hours. SEAL IT IN A BAG TO PROTECT IT FROM MOISTURE. Hard drives are electrical devices and sometimes electrical devices overheat. Getting the drive good and cold and then trying to boot it again might make it function just long enough for you to get those precious wedding pictures. 2. Take the handle end of a screwdriver (while the drive is unplugged) and give it a firm but not hard tap on the center of the top of the drive (not the circuit board.) If you hit it too hard you can permanently destroy the disks. However, if sometimes a firm tap will get the drive spinning again long enough to get your…

What are junk files? These are the unwanted or useless files that accumulate in your personal computer or laptop over time. They could use up valuable memory space that would lead to your personal computer becoming ever so slow. These unwanted documents or items could affect the total performance of your PC. Finding them manually is impossible as they could be residing anywhere in your computer. You could run a quick scan in your PC and discover how many gigabytes of unwanted files you have on your hard drive. How do you acquire these junks in your PC? Unwanted items, folders or programs are actually temporary records designed to back up your work every time you use your computer. So if you use your Word program for instance, a temporary record is created to make your work smooth and to protect it from loss. When you are browsing the internet, various details about the sites you visited are stored in the browsers: “Cache, History and Cookie”. Installing and uninstalling useless or unnecessary programs would cause traces of these files to remain in your PC in the form of junk. However, these temporary items are not automatically deleted when you shut…

Kingston SD (Secure Digital) card are easy to use memory storage devices which can be utilized for a wide range of host devices like digital cameras, camcorders, portable media players, cell phones etc. These cards can be formatted to FAT, FAT 32 and NTFS file system. At times, you must have encountered problems while transferring data from the card to your computer. This happens when the logical structure of the card gets corrupted. In such cases, one can restore the digital files with the help of an updated backup. In case there is no backup maintained, a memory card recovery software will help you to recover inaccessible data. As a practical case, you may encounter the following error while transferring your audio or video or photo files from the card to computer: “Error, library cannot open file” The above error indicates the memory card has got damaged. There are circumstances which can lead to file system damage and resulting in corruption like: Switching off a mobile phone/camera/other usb device before a file is completely written to the card. Removing the memory card from a mobile phone/camera/other usb device while a read/write process is going on. Batteries empty when photos are…

Disclaimer: First of all backup your system before launching you in any hazardous operation, some of the operations to come can cause data loss. Any modification and/or damage done on your laptop will be under your responsibility. As you know now the Acer laptops and those of other manufacturers are now delivered with a restoration system installed in a hidden partition (PQservice for Acer)on your hard disk. Normally this system launches out while pressing simultaneously keys ALT+F10, but sometimes that does not function. What’s the problem? There are many possible causes, but most common are: A The function D2D was disabled in the bios. Solution: Enable the function by pressing F2 during the boot to access the bios menu and change the setting, then reboot and press keys ALT+F10 during the starting of the laptop. Note: For all the following solutions take into account the Max advice, I quote Max now, a contributor in my site «But I want to mention the way I sorted out the thing, because it’s very rarely mentioned on the web. All the methods to repair the D2D Alt+f10 issue are knowledgeable and smart but all of them forget to say a fundamental thing: first…

Kingston SD (Secure Digital) card are easy to use memory storage devices which can be utilized for a wide range of host devices like digital cameras, camcorders, portable media players, cell phones etc. These cards can be formatted to FAT, FAT 32 and NTFS file system. At times, you must have encountered problems while transferring data from the card to your computer. This happens when the logical structure of the card gets corrupted. In such cases, one can restore the digital files with the help of an updated backup. In case there is no backup maintained, a memory card recovery software will help you to recover inaccessible data. As a practical case, you may encounter the following error while transferring your audio or video or photo files from the card to computer: “Error, library cannot open file” The above error indicates the memory card has got damaged. There are circumstances which can lead to file system damage and resulting in corruption like: Switching off a mobile phone/camera/other usb device before a file is completely written to the card. Removing the memory card from a mobile phone/camera/other usb device while a read/write process is going on. Batteries empty when photos are…

Earlier, many times, we all must have wishes that just like our computer; our mobile phone also should have been provided with a recycle bin. Finally our wishes have come true, with the introduction of deleted text message reader. Now it is possible to retrieve important text messages – these could be a congratulatory, consoling message, an important address, telephone number etc. Now it is possible to recover these “lost” messages – this is because the messages are not immediately deleted from the memory of you hands free cell phone or from your SIM card (depending on where the “deleted” message was sent ) – instead, the space occupied by the “deleted “message is marked as reusable space which can be used later when there is a need for it This is why till the space occupied by the “deleted” message is erased by some other date being written above that, it is possible to recover the “lost” text message and read text messages. You will need some tools – these are a USB SIM card reader and a SIM card recovery program. The USB SIM card reader is not very expensive and could be purchased on the net also….

To permanently delete a file it is not enough to press delete or to empty the recycle bin. Operating systems like Windows or Mac OS delete the file by marking it invisible and by releasing the disk space it was using. In fact, it is impossible to delete the file, you can only overwrite it with some other data. This basic principle of computer file system is used to undelete files. If we have, for example, accidentally deleted some file, we can recover it by using some undelete tool. If the data was not overwritten we can get the original file back as it was prior to deletion. For many computer users this behavior of files is not problematic. We don’t care what happens with the files after they are deleted. But there are cases when we care or at least we should care. When we would like to dump the old computer or donate it to somebody we don’t want to leave all the files on the disk. Deleting them or even formatting the disk does not solve the problem. With simple recovery tools it is possible to recover formatted partitions and deleted files. This is a problem because…

My name is Jay and I'm an addict. Drugs controlled my life for many years. They took me to places of darkness and lonliness. Addiction is a disease. It is terminal and incurable. We find ourselves in places where we see no escape. Our addiction takes away our soul, our morals, and our sense of being. Although we will remain addicts for the rest of our lives, once we admit we have a problem and accept that our lives are out of control, we can begin to treat our disease. For an addict, the thought of living the rest of their life without ever using drugs again is too overwhelming for them to fathom. We've been using for so long, hiding and running from ourselves and our fears. It usually is not to an addict has hit rock bottom before they will admit that they have a problem. The thing about being an addict is that your always the last one to find out. Your family and friends have known this for years, but denial is just another weapon your disease uses to keep you sick. What does it take for a person to admit they have a problem, and…

To permanently delete a file it is not enough to press delete or to empty the recycle bin. Operating systems like Windows or Mac OS delete the file by marking it invisible and by releasing the disk space it was using. In fact, it is impossible to delete the file, you can only overwrite it with some other data. This basic principle of computer file system is used to undelete files. If we have, for example, accidentally deleted some file, we can recover it by using some undelete tool. If the data was not overwritten we can get the original file back as it was prior to deletion. For many computer users this behavior of files is not problematic. We don’t care what happens with the files after they are deleted. But there are cases when we care or at least we should care. When we would like to dump the old computer or donate it to somebody we don’t want to leave all the files on the disk. Deleting them or even formatting the disk does not solve the problem. With simple recovery tools it is possible to recover formatted partitions and deleted files. This is a problem because…